Gary Cooper
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 Gary Cooper facts

• His career spanned thirty-five years, from 1925 to 1960, and included leading roles in eighty-four feature films
• He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood
• His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres
• Cooper's ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his appearing natural and authentic on screen
• The screen persona he sustained throughout his career represented the ideal American hero
• Cooper began his career as a film extra and stunt rider and soon landed acting roles
• After establishing himself as a Western hero in his early silent films, Cooper became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound picture, The Virginian
• In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
• During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr
• Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)